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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 569
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/16/2004 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls |
| PT STOOD UP AND NAIL THAT WAS STICKING OUT OF WALL PUNCTURED HER HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT HIT HEAD ON A NAIL DX: SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2004 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT ACCIDENTLY HIT HEAD ON A NAIL, SUSTAINED " SCALP PUNCTURE WOUND" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2004 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 58YOF AT HOME HIT HEAD ON NAIL IN ATTIC DX/PUNCTURE WOUND SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2004 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PIECE OF FOOD FELL DOWN ONTO HIS HEAD W/ A NAIL STICKING OUT OF IT DX PUNCTURE WOUND TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| CAUGHT HEAD ON RUSTY NAIL ABRADING IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2004 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| HIT HEAD ON A RUSTY NAIL AND LAC IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2004 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| SCALP PUNCTURE WOUND-HIT HEAD ON A NAIL IN CRAWL SPACE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2004 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls |
| PT HIT HEAD ON A NAIL STICKING OUT OF WALL NO LOC NO HEADACHE HEAD LACE RATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2004 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 74YOM INJ TO HEAD AT HOME IN CRAWL SPACE ON A NAIL DX/LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Poles |
| PT WAS STANDING BY A FLAG POLE WHEN THE WIND BLEW THE FLAG POLE ROPE WH ICH HAD A BOLT IN THE END STRUCK IN THE HEAD LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2004 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| LEFT PARIETAL SCALP LACERATION-STRUCK HEAD ON A NAIL AT HOME. SUS A 4CM LACERATION TO SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls |
| ACUTE PPUNCTURE WOUND TO SCALP - PATIENT WAS IN BEHAVIORS AND STRUCK HER HEAD ON WALL-THERE WAS A NAIL STICKING OUT WHICH PUNCTURED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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